If you ask me whether Mr Grimes here can sue you for the balance, I tell you very plainly that he can't.

We were a little short of money when we came to a settlement, as is generally the case at such times, and so we took Mr Grimes' receipt for three hundred pounds." "Of course you did, Mr Scruby." "Not on account, but in full of all demands." "Now Mr Scruby!" and the publican as he made this appeal looked at the attorney with an expression of countenance which was absolutely eloquent.

"Are you going to put me off with such an excuse as that ?" so the look spoke plainly enough.

"Are you going to bring up my own signature against me, when you know very well that I shouldn't have got a shilling at all for the next twelve months if I hadn't given it?
Oh Mr Scruby!" That's what Mr Grimes' look said, and both Mr Scruby and Mr Vavasor understood it perfectly.
"In full of all demands," said Mr Scruby, with a slight tone of triumph in his voice, as though to show that Grimes' appeal had no effect at all upon his conscience.

"If you were to go into a court of law, Grimes, you wouldn't have a leg to stand upon." "A court of law?
Who's a going to law with the governor, I should like to know?
not I; not if he didn't pay me them ninety-two pounds thirteen and fourpence for the next five years." "Five years or fifteen would make no difference," said Scruby.